Thematic Bible
Job 9:1 (show verse)
Then Job answered and said,
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Job 9:2 (show verse)
Of a truth I know that it is so. But how can man be just with God?
Job 9:3 (show verse)
If he is pleased to contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.
Job 9:4 (show verse)
[He is] wise in heart, and mighty in strength. Who has hardened himself against him, and prospered?
Job 9:5 (show verse)
[He] who removes the mountains, and they do not know it when he overturns them in his anger,
Job 9:6 (show verse)
who shakes the earth out of its place, and the pillars of it tremble,
Job 9:7 (show verse)
who commands the sun, and it does not rise, and seals up the stars,
Job 9:8 (show verse)
who alone stretches out the heavens, and treads upon the waves of the sea,
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Job 9:9 (show verse)
who makes the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, and the chambers of the south,
Job 9:10 (show verse)
who does great things past finding out, yea, marvelous things without number.
Job 9:11 (show verse)
Lo, he goes by me, and I do not see him. He also passes on, but I do not perceive him.
Job 9:12 (show verse)
Behold, he seizes; who can hinder him? Who will say to him, What are thou doing?
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Job 9:13 (show verse)
God will not withdraw his anger. The helpers of Rahab stoop under him.
Job 9:14 (show verse)
How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words [to reason] with him?
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Job 9:15 (show verse)
Whom, though I were righteous, yet I would not answer. I would make supplication to my judge.
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Job 9:16 (show verse)
If I had called, and he had answered me, yet I would not believe that he hearkened to my voice.
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Job 9:17 (show verse)
For he breaks me with a tempest, and multiplies my wounds without cause.
Job 9:18 (show verse)
He will not allow me to take my breath, but fills me with bitterness.
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Job 9:19 (show verse)
If of strength, lo, [he is] mighty! And if of justice, who will summon me?
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Job 9:20 (show verse)
Though I be righteous, my own mouth shall condemn me. Though I be perfect, it shall prove me perverse.
Job 9:21 (show verse)
Though I were perfect, I do not regard myself. I despise my life.
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Job 9:22 (show verse)
It is all one thing. Therefore I say, He destroys the perfect and the wicked.
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Job 9:23 (show verse)
If the scourge kills suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.
Job 9:24 (show verse)
The earth is given into the hand of the wicked. He covers the faces of the judges of it. If not [he], who then is it?
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Job 9:25 (show verse)
Now my days are swifter than a runner. They flee away. They see no good,
Job 9:26 (show verse)
They are passed away as the swift ships, as the eagle that swoops on the prey.
Birds » Used as sacrifices » Eagles, a type of swiftness
Eagle » The swift flight of
Eagles » A bird of prey
Eagles » Illustrative » (hasting to the prey,) of the swiftness of man's days
Eagles » Eagles, a type of swiftness
natural Life » Is compared to » An eagle hasting to the prey
natural Life » Is compared to » A swift ship
Ships » Described as » Swift
Eagle » The swift flight of
Eagles » A bird of prey
Eagles » Illustrative » (hasting to the prey,) of the swiftness of man's days
Eagles » Eagles, a type of swiftness
natural Life » Is compared to » An eagle hasting to the prey
natural Life » Is compared to » A swift ship
Ships » Described as » Swift
Job 9:27 (show verse)
If I say, I will forget my complaint. I will put off my [sad] countenance, and be of good cheer,
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Job 9:28 (show verse)
I am afraid of all my sorrows. I know that thou will not hold me innocent.
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Job 9:29 (show verse)
I shall be condemned. Why then do I labor in vain?
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Job 9:30 (show verse)
If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands ever so clean,
Job 9:31 (show verse)
yet thou will plunge me in the ditch, and my own clothes shall abhor me.
Job 9:32 (show verse)
For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, that we should come together in judgment.
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Job 9:33 (show verse)
There is no umpire between us who might lay his hand upon us both.
Job 9:34 (show verse)
Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his terror make me afraid.
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Job 9:35 (show verse)
Then I would speak, and not be afraid of him, for I am not so in myself.
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